5) was a law in Ireland which replaced the Dáil constituencies which had been defined in the Electoral Act 1923.
Unlike the constituencies in the 1923 Act, it included many instances of crossing county boundaries to form constituencies.
[2] This was in combination with the abolition of the two university constituencies, which was effected by the Constitution (Amendment No.
The constituencies would remain in operation at the 1938, 1943 and 1944 general elections.
The constituencies were revised again by the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1947, which created a scheme of constituencies which came into effect at the dissolution of the 12th Dáil and was first used at 1948 general election.